After marching his squad onto the dunes, he promises that they will return home in three months, if they can each defuse six mines per hour. Rasmussen is rude to and contemptuous of them and the neighbouring household treats them with hostility. Rasmussen shares this contempt and he is determined to treat the young prisoners without sympathy. They are warned not to expect any sympathy from the Danes, who resent their former occupiers. With their bare hands, the boys are forced to perform the dangerous work by Rasmussen. A group of young German prisoners are handed over to the Danish Army and sent to the west coast, where they are trained to remove the mines that the Germans had buried in the sand. A Danish sergeant, Carl Leopold Rasmussen, angrily harasses a German prisoner of war carrying a Danish flag. It was selected and nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 89th Academy Awards.The film is inspired by real events and tells the story of German prisoners of war sent to clear land mines in Denmark after World War II.įollowing the end of World War II in Europe and the liberation of Denmark from German occupation in May 1945, the defeated Wehrmacht evacuates the country.
It was shown in the Platform section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Land of Mine (Danish: Under sandet, lit. 'Under the Sand') is a 2015 Danish-German historical drama war film directed by Martin Zandvliet. SUBTITLES: English, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Greek, Croatian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian
Land of Mine DVD 2015 (Under the Sand) A homok alatt / Directed by Martin Zandvliet / Starring: Roland Møller, Mikkel Følsgaard UPC 8590548614675 REGION 2 PAL DVD MADE IN Germany AUDIO: German 5.1